I thought with all the Twitter questions I would start by linking everyone to the main website for the film.  There you can find your trailer and get a feel for the movie.  http://www.sonypictures.com/classics/persepolis/

I am enjoying the novel greatly and I wanted to learn more on my own about persepolis itself.  As a history major this are of the world is outside of my concentration and my curiosity won.  I discovered http://www.iranchamber.com/history/persepolis/persepolis1.php which gave great layouts of palaces and has many pictures.

I was following links and reading reviews about the graphic novel when I came across another book by her following the lives of women she also did one for the personal history of her uncle.  http://www.amazon.com/Marjane-Satrapi/e/B001IGFN9I/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_pop_1

she is amazing at dissecting and illustrating personal and intimate stories and bringing them to life for people who have never known about the culture or people or religion to understand.  She has written many graphic novels but I think persepolis may be the only one to gain such high recognition.